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Aye, you could do that. I'm talking
specifically about clicking on a file on your desktop, and dragging over top of
a Flex interface, dropping it there, and having Flex respond to it.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Drag & drop *from* the user's file
system into a Flex 2.0 app
As far as I can tell there are two ways to do
Flex/Browser-to-desktop interfacing:
1. " You need to serve a
crossdomain.xml file over HTTP from the local server.
This will allow a web
based application to interoperate with a desktop based
server. This is
essential to get this to work. Basically this forces you to
support both HTTP
and XMLSocket/Socket in parallel." -- quoted from a reply I had received
earlier.
2. I may be wrong on this one but my assumption is that if you
don't mind installing FES on the desktop and running the Flex app off of
http://localhost/ then I believe that you could access file I/O and whatever
else you need on the desktop, thru FES. This adds the cost of FES
deployment license to each desktop the app runs on.
JesterXL
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David
I know for a fact Zinc & mProjector allow you
to drag and drop files to projectors (EXE's that wrap SWF's) so this could
work for Flex 1.5 SWF's; only a matter of time till 2 is supported. This
is not in a browser, however.
Dos
Flex 1.5 and Flex 2 both have built-in drag and
drop functionality. They just cannot interact with the file system while
running in a browser. So, anything you've seen with AJAX for drag and
drop, you could probably do the same in Flex.
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Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:20 AM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Drag & drop *from* the user's file
system into a Flex 2.0 app
I've seen many AJAX examples of drag and drop.
Is drag
and drop planned for Flex in the future (beyond 8.5) or is their some kind of
fundamental reason not to have it? I have a ! feeling it can be done already
but not it should be made easier. Drag and drop is a common feature of rich
user interfaces.
On the second point, I've been told on this list that
the Flex-to-desktop interface is very tricky to implement. I have yet to see
any documentaion/examples on how to do it. This aspect of Flex should be made
simpler for developers who don't mind having their users install servers on
the desktop.
Matt Chotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
That's
not something that Player 8.5 is going to support I think.
There
might be other tricks but the Player itself won't understand the
drag
and drop.
Matt
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-----Original Message-----
From:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf
Of David Katz
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 7:56 AM
To:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Drag & drop *from*
the user's file system into a
Flex 2.0 app
I know the Flash player
is limited in its ability interact with the
user's file system. I'm
wondering if a Flex 2.0 application (and the
new Flash player) has the
ability to enable a user to drag a file or
folder *from the file system*
onto a Flex app and have the app perform
an action (such as reading meta
data on the files, uploading them,
etc.). Does anybody have any insight
about this?
thanks,
David
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David
Katz
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